drain the dragon

English

Verb

drain the dragon (third-person singular simple present drains the dragon, present participle draining the dragon, simple past and past participle drained the dragon)

1. (slang, of men) To urinate.
   • 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:

     Officer O'Bannion began to have a terrible yet weirdly plausible idea: that this strange little man had killed his wife with a pair of hedge-clippers and then somehow dissolved her body with drain-cleaner—and all because she wouldn't get the hell out of the bathroom while he was trying to drain the dragon.

   • 1995, New York Magazine, volume 28, number 37, page 23:

     Have the squares ruined Wigstock? Will it go the way of the Halloween parade, with Wall Street trainees draining the dragon on Christopher Street?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:urinate.